Bill Clinton To Apologize At LA Black Churches

Washington Post:

Once again, Bill Clinton is ready to repent.

On Sunday the former president is scheduled to visit black churches in South Central Los Angeles, where he's expected to offer a mea culpa to those who "dearly loved him" when he was their president, Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) says.

Watson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), tells us she'll usher the former president to more than half a dozen churches in her district where she says he needs to "renew his relationship" with congregants who were turned off by his racially tinged comments in the days leading up to and following the South Carolina primary. (Such as when Clinton compared Sen. Barack Obama's landslide victory to Jesse Jackson's wins in 1984 and 1988.)

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Comments

[thejsmiths]

I cannot really fathom what has happened to this country. I am a mother of two Marines and I am outraged that ANYONE in this country would even consider for a moment electing anyone who would leave Iraq with our collective tails tucked. I know what you hear on the news but I also know what my sons have witnessed. After having had 8 yrs of Bill I also cannot fathom why someone would consider voting for Hillary. Bill is just the whore, SHE is the pimp. I can assure all of you that she is the real threat between those two as far as this nation goes. Obama is an inexperienced dreamer. Enough said about him.

[unteal]

The Clintons are now having to publicly pander for Black votes in Black churhes. This is not repentance this is regrouping after retreating for the last two weeks. Now Bill Clinton stands in the pulpit and insults the sacred desk and the intelligence of Blacks by saying, "I am not against anybody in this race".

What? You have tried to destroy the hope and unity of the Obama campaign. You played the race card over and over again from Nevada to South Carolina. You have done all you can to unleash the Clinton Attack Machine on the best candidate the Democrats have had in a generation. What nerve the Clintons have! All the mess and mud the Democratic Party had to endure to nominate Clinton. And now they want a third term. Why?, when we could vote for Obama.

When all of this is said and done, the Clintons have shown their hands and their hearts. The nation, not just African Americans, finally gets to see the lengths the Clintons will go to control Washington. It's not about what's best for the party or the nation. The constant political calculation for the Clintons is based on the premise of what gives 'Billary' more power.

[GhostOfSchlesinger]

I've a STRONG gut instinct that the parishioners will be polite, BUT will not forget the attempt to marginalize the most powerful candidate for president in a generation.

The racially charged remarks of the Clinton's and Hillary's REFUSAL to apologize for her husband's behavior on her behalf have been duly noted by all voters.

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

I guess it depends what the definition of "apology" is?

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

Is past, prologue?

Please see the article in the liberal Nation magazine by feminist writer Katha Pollitt on Bill Clinton's alleged involvement in the Juanita Broaddrick sexual assault scandal http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990322/pollittt).

Also, the original Washington Post story on the same subject written by Washington Post mega-star Howard www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/broaddrick022599.htm99.htm).

The Juanita Broaddrick interview in which she talks of her personal experiences with the Clintons can be seen at. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KZ8ICvutc0)

As George Santayana noted: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

[amanda85]

Bill and Hillary are far to arrogant to admit mistakes, let alone apologize for them.
They'd make great Republicans. BTW, Hillary was one.

[InformedMisery]

Polls have shown Hillary supporters don't think Bill hurt her, and CNN had a piece showing national polls before SC and after... and her numbers had actually gone up. This notion that Bill Clinton hurt her is just media nonsense.

[tgood]

I predict Hillary to loose. She should have coded her pandering to the Latinos to include drivers licenses for illegals like Obama did and tell minorities,other than Latinos, they are just scapegoating the poor illegal immigrants. She just needs to take pandering lessons from Obama and hope nobody finds a totally different message from two years ago that exists when Obama said exactly the opposite when pandering to the black community.

We are headed for a change alright. More pandering than ever before. Viva la Mexico.

[mrJJ]

Billary already said that this WILL NOT BE "Mea Culpa Tour" ... Fix the Headline

.....There is nothing he has said or done on this campaign trail that deserves a "Mea Culpa". Forces outside of his campaign have made this an issue... Deal with it!

Ouch! my emphasis

[urbanrevolt]

Like i thought, "they" must have mischaracterized Bill.

He'll explain how people like Teddy Kennedy have ruined everything, and it is really their fault. Bill never meant any of those things that people said he said and did.

It's a vast left wing conspiracy, and you all should be as mad as Bill.

[MPeter]

Clinton is a liar whose word cannot be trusted. He has made lying an art. So-called AA leaders who listen and believe this disgraceful man are corrupt, bought and paid for by the Clintons and will do anything to give him a way out. They are a disgrace.

[degjack]

No Mea Culpa from Bill

Good. Now that you're up off your knees, Bill, stay off them! No apologizing to no one (except Hillary of course). Take a lesson from GWB who NEVER apologizes to no one no time about nothing, okay?? See how he got off scott free? And all he said for the past 7 years to everybody was "Eff you"!

[KyleCope]

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[AnninCA]

Ah well......­once again, the pundits tried to make the news and missed the mark.

[KyleCope]

The Best Hillary spoof ever!
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Or search HILLARY TERMINATOR on You Tube!